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How to Submit a Name for our Juror/Assessor Database
Every year, the Manitoba Arts Council receives over
800 applications and awards over 500 grants. To ensure
that we use our financial resources wisely and that
decisions are fair and objective, peer assessment is
a cornerstone of our granting process.
The main criterion used to award grants is artistic
merit. Several other criteria, such as vitality, originality,
relevance, creativity, novelty and experimentation as
well as technical and professional expertise are also
used to assist jurors and assessors in making an objective
decision.
The Manitoba Arts Council maintains a very large database
of over 1100 names of artists in Manitoba, Canada and
internationally who have been recommended to us as potential
jurors. Many of those jurors have come to us through
recommendations from the arts community.
If you would like to recommend a potential juror
or assessor (Note: You can recommend yourself), please
read the important information below prior to submitting
a name to our database.
(Submission details follow.)
PEER ASSESSMENT PROCESS:
All parties involved in the granting system are chosen
for their expertise.
Program consultants are hired based on their knowledge
and background in the arts. In addition, jurors and
advisors are engaged for their direct knowledge and
personal experience as well as artistic judgement. Finally,
Board members are selected for their knowledge and interest
in the arts.
The Council has conflict-of-interest policies that
recognize this appreciation for the arts, yet provides
guidance in determining what may be perceived as conflicts
of interest.
To avoid any perception of conflict of interest, Council
members, employees, jurors and advisors must follow
strict confidentiality guidelines where privileged information
is involved. They cannot use any confidential Council
information for their own use and cannot release it
to any unauthorized person or in advance of its authorized
release.
FACTS ABOUT JURIES AND ASSESSMENT PANELS:
Composition of Juries and Assessment Panels:
There are specific guidelines to be followed by program
consultants in selecting juries and assessment panels,
as follows:
- A minimum of 30% of any jury or panel should
be made up of artists and arts professionals resident
in Manitoba. Frequently, juries include 50% or more
Manitobans. The exact ratios vary from one discipline
to another. Cost considerations also have an impact
on the size of juries and the numbers of out-of-province
jurors employed during any year (travel expenses for
out-of-province jurors are covered by the MAC).
- Each jury or panel is chosen so that it contains
people knowledgeable in the various categories of artistic
expressions to be reviewed.
- Juries and panels are selected to ensure fair
and adequate representation of artistic background and
philosophy, gender, and institutional affiliation (i.e.
representatives from a public gallery, artist-run centre,
production centre, university, etc.).
- Jurors or panellists may only serve once every
two years in a particular program. There are exceptions
to this, such as when a juror or assessor with a broad
range of skills serves in consecutive years but only
for distinctly separate programs, or when jurors must
serve consecutively for purposes of continuity.
Other considerations that might impact on the selection
of a jury include:
- Jurors or assessors may not be available at
an appropriate time to meet a program deadline or,
- the pool of available and experienced jurors
or assessors in a particular area may not be large.
Within these limitations, the program consultants pick
jurors or assessment panel members who typically gain
experience and skill in jurying over a period of time.
However, every possible consideration cannot be addressed
at every deadline.
Differences Between a Jury and an Assessment Panel:
Assessment panels differ from juries in that panels
do not recommend award amounts. Rather, assessment panels
review the applications and rank them according to the
criterion of artistic merit, within the guidelines and
criteria of the programs. Assessment panels may be asked
to consider the financial information contained in the
application, but are not asked to recommend the amount
of an award. The ranking assigned by the assessment
panel is accepted as final by the officer, the Executive
Director, or Council.
Checks and Balances to Ensure Fairness in the Peer
Assessment Process:
There are a number of mechanisms in place to ensure
the fairness and integrity of the peer assessment process
to MAC applicants and the public. The most important
ones are:
- conflict-of-interest guidelines
- confidentiality requirements
- community-based advisory panels
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Please send us the name of potential juror, their contact
information and a copy of their resume.
Please mail to the following address.
525-93 Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3B1
On the envelope please mark "Juror Recommendation"
and indicate their broad discipline from one of the
following areas:
- Arts Development
- Aboriginal Arts
- Literary Arts
- Performing Arts
- Visual Arts
*NEW*
Click here to download the Peer Assessment Nomination Form (PDF)Please note that you must use Adobe Acrobat to use this form.
(Click here to download the free Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer.)
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